We went to a hotel restaurant for our anniversary dinner and took the tasting menu. We did not take the wine package as that was the same as what they had offered on a previous visit. Looking through the wine list and referencing it to the menu, I picked this wine for the evening.
Now Ceretto is a producer that I had already met, though I am unsure how many wines I had tried of theirs. Their flagship wines are well known and so I decided for this Barbera to accompany us for the meal. Made with fruit from vines planted in 1965, this Barbera d'Alba was fermented and aged in steel (for 6 months). As for this 2011 wine, it was ruby red, with a berry slightly sweet then acid nose. The sweet acid combination carried through to the palate with a lessening of the fruit in the mouth, well supported by an acid backbone.
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